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The news from Iraq has been so bad for so long, it has become difficult to distinguish the merely depressing from the genuinely disastrous. But the fall of Mosul, the country’s second largest city, to jihadi forces this week provided a shock well above and beyond the quotidian misery — one …

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Sunni militants extended their control over parts of northern and western Iraq on Wednesday as Iraqi government forces crumbled in disarray. The militants overran the city of Tikrit, seized facilities in the strategic oil refining town of Baiji, and threatened an important Shiite shrine in Samarra as they moved south …

Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) still control eight neighborhoods of Mosul, Iraq’s interior ministry said, as local officials demanded help from Kurdish Peshmarga forces to oust the al-Qaeda splinter group. Meanwhile, thousands seeking safety from the worsening security situation in Nineveh province — where Mosul …